Home care insurance system in JapanNURSINGCAREINSURANCE

Home care products and long-term care insurance system in Japan

For Example, I needed a wheelchair!

There are self-propelled type and electric motor of type to move by yourself. Because self-propelled type often turns wheels with hands, you can move with legs if you choose low floor. The motorized type can be moved with a motor. Electric type can drive sidewalks and the like. I do not need a license, but please be careful as it is a public road. There is alternate type of self-propelled and assistance. It is the most used type, you can move by yourself or push it by someone. The wheelchair for assistance is a type that is easy to stick to a car etc. because the wheel is small and compact.

To buy or borrow

There are rental and purchase. If you use nursing-care insurance it will be rented. Advantages of rental can change model depending on symptoms. Purchasing will purchase new or second hand goods.

I want an electric bed.

The nursing bed is a type that makes it easy to raise your eyes, to stand up from the bed and walk easily to the toilet and so on. A type with a function to lift so that assistance or a care does not have to bend the waist. Multiple functions can be selected depending on the symptoms such as type which can automatically perform posture conversion etc. so that bed sores (pressure sores) are difficult to be formed. However, it is not necessary to have a lot of advanced features. The pressure sore prevention function automatically makes the posture change with the air, making it difficult to turn over on your own. Please select the function by the symptoms.

Counselor for welfare equipment

All of our employees, including the part, are qualified as special assistant for welfare equipment. Feel free to consult a professional consultation on welfare equipment.Many employees of sales-related positions have qualification as a living environment coordinator and are working on selecting the most suitable welfare equipment. Some who have a handicapped person, Some municipalities have subsidies.

About using nursing care insurance

There is nursing-care insurance as public assistance. If you are nursing-care certified and over 65 years old, items that can be used in the state of the body change.Among the welfare equipment, a wheelchair, a special bed (nursing bed), a bed sores prevention tool, a posture transducer, a dementia senile wandering sensing equipment, a moving lift (excluding a part of a toilet) and an automatic excretion treatment device (Excluding those with the function of aspirating to the nursing care insurance), the insurance benefits with nursing-care insurance will not be carried out in principle for those who are light (those who need support / Nursing care 1). Regarding the automatic excretion treatment device (excluding those that automatically suck urine only), in addition to those of the requiring care recipient 1, in principle, for nursing care 2 and requiring nursing care 3, nursing care Insurance benefits by insurance are not done.Nursing-care insurance can be used for persons aged 40 to 65, limited to cases of specific diseases. Nursing-care insurance can be used at a 10% burden, but those with a total income of pension, etc. of 2.8 million yen or more are 20% burdens.